Answer the questions about chapters 16 - 21 below. Please remember that you are being graded on your complete response including EXAMPLES FROM THE TEXT, complete sentences and spelling, grammar, capitalization, punctuation, etc.
1. How do you think that Phoebe and her family treat Mrs. Winterbottom?
I think they treated Mrs. Winterbottom like she was their slave. They made her do all the work and they made her feel likes she was a bad person.
2. Do you think their treatment of Mrs. Winterbottom bothers Sal? Why?
Yes I think their treatment of Mrs. Winterbottom bothers Sal because she thinks she is sad and unhappy. Phoebe and her family don't notice Mrs. Winterbottom is depressed.
3. What does Phoebe discover when she comes home from the dentist?
Phoebe discovers that her mom left them notes saying to lock the doors and windows and to heat up the spaghetti and that she will be home and call them in a few days.
4. How do Phoebe and her family react to the news?
At first, Phoebe is glad that her mom thinks she is old enough to stay home alone. Then she reads Prudence's note and it says heat up the spaghetti. They start to get worried. Then they read their father's note. It says that she will be home in a few days.
5. Chapter 18 is titled, " The Good Man." Who is the good man that this title talks about? How is this person good?
The good man is Sal's father. He is good because whenever he went out he got Sal and her mom some gifts. He always left flowers on the kitchen table too.
6. In chapter 17 Phoebe and her family get another note. What does the note say? What do you think the note means?
The note says: In the course of a lifetime, what does it matter? I think it means that when you're living, what does it matter when you do things. I think it means that because what does it matter because we're all going to die in the end.
1. How do you think that Phoebe and her family treat Mrs. Winterbottom?
I think they treated Mrs. Winterbottom like she was their slave. They made her do all the work and they made her feel likes she was a bad person.
2. Do you think their treatment of Mrs. Winterbottom bothers Sal? Why?
Yes I think their treatment of Mrs. Winterbottom bothers Sal because she thinks she is sad and unhappy. Phoebe and her family don't notice Mrs. Winterbottom is depressed.
3. What does Phoebe discover when she comes home from the dentist?
Phoebe discovers that her mom left them notes saying to lock the doors and windows and to heat up the spaghetti and that she will be home and call them in a few days.
4. How do Phoebe and her family react to the news?
At first, Phoebe is glad that her mom thinks she is old enough to stay home alone. Then she reads Prudence's note and it says heat up the spaghetti. They start to get worried. Then they read their father's note. It says that she will be home in a few days.
5. Chapter 18 is titled, " The Good Man." Who is the good man that this title talks about? How is this person good?
The good man is Sal's father. He is good because whenever he went out he got Sal and her mom some gifts. He always left flowers on the kitchen table too.
6. In chapter 17 Phoebe and her family get another note. What does the note say? What do you think the note means?
The note says: In the course of a lifetime, what does it matter? I think it means that when you're living, what does it matter when you do things. I think it means that because what does it matter because we're all going to die in the end.